Clea Christakos-Gee

Clea Christakos-Gee

Clea Christakos-Gee

Clea Christakos-Gee

Canada

Canada

Canada

Canada

Series: In the Third

Series: In the Third

Series: In the Third

Series: In the Third

In the Third considers the devoted and complex art practices of the women in my maternal family and their influence on my personal desires as an image maker. The project uses an integration of text, image, and collage to visually articulate a connectivity across three generations. The mediums of collage and photography provide different affective modes for locating these layered negotiations of memory and imagination, family and autonomy, material and trace. Using the respective artistic materials of my mother and grandmother to make new assemblages allows me to claim subjectivity in relation to my creative attachments—particularly as they are shown in dialogue with my photographs made in Sudbury, Ontario the place that has shaped my tangible connection to this matrilineage.

On the Porch, 2018.

On the Porch, 2018.

On the Porch, 2018.

On the Porch, 2018.

From the Garden, 2018.

From the Garden, 2018.

From the Garden, 2018.

From the Garden, 2018.

A Hole, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

A Hole, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

A Hole, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

A Hole, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

“I look at her and think, there, she exists, like a tree, a lake, a sky, a planet, she exists, daughter.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“I look at her and think, there, she exists, like a tree, a lake, a sky, a planet, she exists, daughter.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“I look at her and think, there, she exists, like a tree, a lake, a sky, a planet, she exists, daughter.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“I look at her and think, there, she exists, like a tree, a lake, a sky, a planet, she exists, daughter.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

Motherlines, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

Motherlines, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

Motherlines, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

Motherlines, 2018, Photo Collage on Archival Paper.

“Alongside what I have embodied about my grandmother’s girlhoods, and what I have been able to summon about their mothers and other women in our motherlines...with incessant rhythm, as lakes shift, and wind moves, and language undresses and confesses and curls.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“Alongside what I have embodied about my grandmother’s girlhoods, and what I have been able to summon about their mothers and other women in our motherlines...with incessant rhythm, as lakes shift, and wind moves, and language undresses and confesses and curls.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“Alongside what I have embodied about my grandmother’s girlhoods, and what I have been able to summon about their mothers and other women in our motherlines...with incessant rhythm, as lakes shift, and wind moves, and language undresses and confesses and curls.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.

“Alongside what I have embodied about my grandmother’s girlhoods, and what I have been able to summon about their mothers and other women in our motherlines...with incessant rhythm, as lakes shift, and wind moves, and language undresses and confesses and curls.”—Margaret Christakos, Her Paraphernalia, 2016.